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Chapter 1: Introduction
Installing and Using ColdFusion is intended for anyone who installs and configures Adobe ColdFusion.
About ColdFusion documentation
The ColdFusion documentation is designed to provide support for the complete spectrum of participants.
Documentation set
Viewing online documentation
All ColdFusion documentation is available online in HTML and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format
(PDF) files. Go to the documentation home page for ColdFusion on the Adobe website:
www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/. Also, you can view the documentation in LiveDocs,
which lets you add comments to pages and view the latest comments added by Adobe, by going to
www.adobe.com/go/livedocs_cf8docs.
Book Description
Installing and Using ColdFu-
sion
Describes system installation and basic configuration for Windows, Macintoch, Solaris,
Linux, and AIX.
Configuring and Adminis-
tering ColdFusion
Part 1 describes how to manage the ColdFusion environment, including connecting
to your data sources, configuring security for your applications, and monitoring server
activity. Part 2 describes Verity search tools and utilities that you can use for config-
uring the Verity Search Server engine, as well as creating, managing, and trouble-
shooting Verity collections.
ColdFusion Developer’s
Guide
Describes how to develop your dynamic web applications, including retrieving and
updating your data, using structures, and forms.
CFML Reference Provides descriptions, syntax, usage, and code examples for all ColdFusion tags, func-
tions, and variables.